I was up early this morning, not through choice, but forced to roll out of bed at 05:30 in order to get a lift to work from my girlfriend who was going in early...I don't drive you see, so I am at the mercy of my girlfriend getting me part of the way to work so I can continue on the train...This means if she has to get up at silly o'clock in the morning, so do I! It can be terribly annoying but, such is life...
I usually head straight for work and take a small blanket in my bag, curl up on the hard carpet tiles and try and catch up on my interrupted sleep - but it's like sleeping on a plane, you never really have a comfortable slumber, you just kind of lie there with your eyes closed and try and convince yourself that you're sleeping.
This particular day though, I decided that I would take my laptop into work with me and play a couple of hours of Football Manager 2009 - the new computer game I got for Christmas. I got to work, set up my laptop and clicked the game icon...nothing...
The game is associated with an application called 'Steam' which is kind of a games network programme from which you can have running updates and download other games from. The issue was that because I was not connected to the Internet in work (I don't know the network key) it wouldn't connect to steam and was therefore stopping me from launching the game. This annoyed me tremendously...it was early in the morning, I was tired and frustrated and wanted a couple of hours of football management to relax me. But nooooo, apparently even though this game is completely designed to be played offline - you need to be connected online in order to launch it. It annoyed me more that no matter what I attempted to do, I couldn't solve the problem. I feel that I am quite knowledgeable when it comes to the Internet and technology, but this little application had beaten me and there was no way to run my game...
What kind of stupid programme stops you from playing an offline game if you have no Internet connection? This Steam programme is annoying at the best of times, taking up all my computer power for no particular reason, but it seems that I cannot run my game without it! stuff like that really bugs me and the lack of sleep did not help one bit! I ended up going down to the local coffee house and just writing a bit of a play instead, but that wasn't very productive because I was angry and tired.
I hate getting beaten by technology, but well done Steam, you got me this time! lets see how well you fare against a baseball bat!
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Monday 12 January 2009
Shakespeare the plagiarizer...
14:54....the time I began writing this piece, my new project for 2009 along with all my other projects for the new year that are bound to crumble...but I completly expect it to so it's kinda okay!
My first post should explain why I am starting this blog and reveal some loose structure behind future posts to come, but the truth is, I was searching on Google for the difference between Satsuma's and Clementines and found a blog explaining such differences (to be honest with you, I still don't know...) and I loved the idea so much I ended up here...
As much as I love and admire the anonymity of the internet, I feel comfortable enough to reveal that my name is Marco and I live in the UK, born in Wales but now live in London. I sit in an office and write blogs when I should be working...but all work and no play makes Marco go crazy!
I'm university educated and secretly believe i'm better than everyone else, although I'm extremly adept and playing the 'common man' so no-one catches on...except my girlfriend maybe, but she's an idiot...
Although this is my first blog, I still feel I should be talking about something that little others know, or at last give some sort of opinion on things as i'm sure you don't want to hear about my life anymore! So i'll give you a quick summary of my 3rd year dissertation for my Theatre Studies and Drama degree (For which I receive an E for...I was NOT happy!):
Most, if not all of Shakespeares plays are derived from the ancient theatre form of Commedia dell'Arte, and, after watching the travelling Italian performers play out the stories, he would return home and work his magic to create the plays we all know and love today. There are even rumours that Shakespeare didn't even write any of the plays, but that's for another debate altogether...
The issue with Commedia dell'Arte is that none of the performance is scripted. A simplistic guideline to the story would have been agreed and then it was up to the actors to improvise their way through to the inevitable conclusions, cramming in as many of their tricks and skills (called lazzi) as they possibly could. The improvisation meant that the troupe could change the performance to suit the local villages and towns to which they performed, mimicking local politicians and well-known figures of the community - it also meant that they would shy away from long monologues and speeches and concentrate more on the physical side of the performance. Shakespeare merely took these shows and stories and converted them to physical written works as we are familiar with today. Still, there can be no denying ole' Bill's way with words and his poetic scrawlings are as important as the stories themselves, so I still think he's a legend...
There, well...that will do for a first post methinks....
Bye!
My first post should explain why I am starting this blog and reveal some loose structure behind future posts to come, but the truth is, I was searching on Google for the difference between Satsuma's and Clementines and found a blog explaining such differences (to be honest with you, I still don't know...) and I loved the idea so much I ended up here...
As much as I love and admire the anonymity of the internet, I feel comfortable enough to reveal that my name is Marco and I live in the UK, born in Wales but now live in London. I sit in an office and write blogs when I should be working...but all work and no play makes Marco go crazy!
I'm university educated and secretly believe i'm better than everyone else, although I'm extremly adept and playing the 'common man' so no-one catches on...except my girlfriend maybe, but she's an idiot...
Although this is my first blog, I still feel I should be talking about something that little others know, or at last give some sort of opinion on things as i'm sure you don't want to hear about my life anymore! So i'll give you a quick summary of my 3rd year dissertation for my Theatre Studies and Drama degree (For which I receive an E for...I was NOT happy!):
Most, if not all of Shakespeares plays are derived from the ancient theatre form of Commedia dell'Arte, and, after watching the travelling Italian performers play out the stories, he would return home and work his magic to create the plays we all know and love today. There are even rumours that Shakespeare didn't even write any of the plays, but that's for another debate altogether...
The issue with Commedia dell'Arte is that none of the performance is scripted. A simplistic guideline to the story would have been agreed and then it was up to the actors to improvise their way through to the inevitable conclusions, cramming in as many of their tricks and skills (called lazzi) as they possibly could. The improvisation meant that the troupe could change the performance to suit the local villages and towns to which they performed, mimicking local politicians and well-known figures of the community - it also meant that they would shy away from long monologues and speeches and concentrate more on the physical side of the performance. Shakespeare merely took these shows and stories and converted them to physical written works as we are familiar with today. Still, there can be no denying ole' Bill's way with words and his poetic scrawlings are as important as the stories themselves, so I still think he's a legend...
There, well...that will do for a first post methinks....
Bye!
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